Police Board Chief Eyed for Top Cop Role
via Chicago Sun-Times
“Lightfoot is savvy, a skilled lawyer, an African-American, a former assistant U.S. attorney who could work with the feds, and there is no regulation Chicago’s police superintendent has to be a cop,” a top cop source said.
“Lightfoot could be appointed by Rahm just as non-cop Police Supt. O.W. Wilson was by Mayor Richard J. Daley,” a second source said.
Mixed into this scenario is making recently appointed acting Police Supt. John Escalante — a seasoned and well-respected police chief — the department’s first deputy police superintendent, who would run the day-to-day operation while Lightfoot reorganizes the agency.”
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